Ship Incident, Ardrossan 1961
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Ship Incident, Ardrossan 1961
Grain ship Harry R Jones aground at the Inches in 1961. The buildings in the background are the Can Factory.
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Re: Ship Incident, Ardrossan 1961
remember it well walked from saltcoats new England road as a boy to see it
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Re: Ship Incident, Ardrossan 1961
Can anyone remember a ship on the rocks behind the houses in Bath place just as you turn into Princess Street from Salcoats in the sixties or is my heed away with it.
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Hi Ian,
That's most likely the same ship you see in the first post in this topic. There is another image of it from a different angle in the pictorial book "Old Ardrossan" stating:
In February 1961 the cargo ship Harry R Jones, en route from Canada to Troon Shipbreakers Yard, snapped her tow line and drifted onto the Inches.
That's most likely the same ship you see in the first post in this topic. There is another image of it from a different angle in the pictorial book "Old Ardrossan" stating:
In February 1961 the cargo ship Harry R Jones, en route from Canada to Troon Shipbreakers Yard, snapped her tow line and drifted onto the Inches.
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I also remember walking there to see it. Someone told me it was originally a Liberty ship, anyone confirm that?
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With the ship coming from Canada I always took it to be a ship constructed for use on the great lakes as a bulk carrier. Many such great lakes ships had the superstructure right forward while the cabins and engineering was aft, just like the Harry R Jones.
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Nice link, Ellen.
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Thanks Hughie it was this ship I got a look at a different photo where you said I was only 11and remember a few of us from up the scheme in Saltcoats going for a look.
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heres a link from the troon shipbreakers database som different photos as well. also confirmation she sailed the lakes
http://www.clydemaritime.co.uk/Harry%20R.%20Jones
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http://www.clydemaritime.co.uk/Harry%20R.%20Jones
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probably a wee bit of topic,but does anyone have any info of the wreck that lay on the rocks at horse island for quite a while in the late 50's or early 60's I remember seeing it as a boy.
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Re: Ship Incident, Ardrossan 1961
James,
This incident happened on the 21st of February 1960 -
This incident happened on the 21st of February 1960 -
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